• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s not even about turning a profit anymore. It’s about always making record profits.

    And the powers that be either don’t see this as totally unsustainable or just don’t care.

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Infinite growth with finite resources. Our economic system is a metaphor for entropy and the heat death of the universe.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        Arguably we just have to make it to net profit asteroid mining

        From that point the numbers are always going to work out that there’s just more resources than we could ever hope to outstrip, and the question becomes much more about what human society and economy looks like in a world where all scarcity is inherently artificial.